More From Amy Tan
- "No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn’t have encouragement, but I didn’t have discouragement, because I don’t think anybody knew what that meant."
- "I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
- "My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
More In Hope
- "Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress."― Sarah Polley
- "Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."― William Wordsworth
- "I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope."― P. J. Harvey